Mr. McCain is the first 2008 presidential candidate to be declared eligible to receive matching money.
The Coursera classes are the first MOOCs — for massive open online courses — to be declared eligible.
Clarett is trying to be declared eligible for the N.F.L. draft; the other cases involved life and death.
Having little interest in school and even less money, the Pondexters claimed hardship and were among the first underclassmen to be declared eligible for the N.B.A. draft.
As far as he knew, he said, no legal developments were brewing in their behalf — not that it made much difference, he added, since he had learned just a few weeks earlier that Meserve and Clark stood to be declared eligible for parole before they had served even half their time at Fort Leavenworth.
The airlines want it to be declared an "essential commodity", making it eligible for tax at 4%.
An estimated 10% were likely to be declared ineligible following the initial session, yielding approximately 252 eligible couples at baseline.
However, that year some other early draft entrants met with better success: the first four selections (Elton Brand, Steve Francis, Baron Davis, and Lamar Odom) also had surrendered some remaining collegiate eligibility by declaring themselves eligible to be drafted in the NBA draft and high schoolers Jonathan Bender and Leon Smith were drafted in the first round.
A total compression of the brain stem occurred, and the patient was declared brain dead, after which she was found eligible to be a heart-beating donor.
Well, this week, the Senate declared McCain is eligible to and listen to this, because of his age, also eligible to be a greeter at Wal-Mart.
